Beyond the Forest: Jewish Presence in Eastern Europe, 2004-2012

Kantor has produced a museum-quality traveling exhibition that features a selection of photographs included in her publication Beyond the Forest that is available for booking. She is interested in giving educational lectures, hosting workshops & book signings and helping to organize panel discussions in conjunction with the exhibition.

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Yiddish Book Center Museum, Amherst, MA

March 19 - October 15, 2017

Artist Talk: September 10, 2017

This week we sit down with Loli Kantor, the photographer behind our newest visiting exhibit: Beyond the Forest: Jewish Presence in Eastern Europe. Loli talks about how a visit to Poland inspired an eight-year-long project that took her into homes, synagogues, and other community centers in Poland and Ukraine, where she got to know both the elderly Jewish population as well as younger people eager to revive the largely lost Jewish culture. She also talks about the meaning behind her photographs, and how this meaning has changed now that the older generation has started to pass away. Episode 0143 April 14, 2017 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts